Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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C-SPAN's American History TV sits down with historians to discuss Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), who founded several labor unions and represented the Socialist Party of America as candidate for president. He ran five times, the last time from prison in 1920 when he received almost a million votes, and even though he lost he changed political history.

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